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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the automobile contribute to super-industrial culture?
(a) Diminished family loyalty.
(b) More and more industrial waste.
(c) Increased mobility.
(d) Decreased efficiency.

2. What does Toffler propose as a standard for relationships?
(a) Total involvement.
(b) Personal intimacy.
(c) Multi-generational knowledge.
(d) Role-based familiarity.

3. What kind of lifestyle does Toffler say is characterized by frequent moves?
(a) Illegal immigrant lifestyle.
(b) Corporate lifestyle.
(c) Middle-class lifestyle.
(d) Manual laborer lifestyle.

4. What makes future shock different than culture shock?
(a) Future shock consists of familiar cues being replaced by unfamiliar cues.
(b) Future shock is a cultural condition.
(c) Culture shock only lasts for a generation before assimilation takes place.
(d) Culture shock only happens in modern cultures.

5. How have careers changed in super-industrial culture?
(a) They tend to trap people in one field.
(b) They make people specialists.
(c) They have shorter lifespans.
(d) They tend to lead to promotion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toffler say distinguishes people in cities from people in towns?

2. What was it that attracted immigrants to America, according to Toffler?

3. What do deeper relationships involve, in Toffler's account?

4. Which relationship is not one of the relationships Toffler describes as comprising social experience?

5. Which groups move most often, in Toffler's account?

(see the answer key)

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